ReadQuick - Speed Reader app for iPhone and iPad

4.8 ( 7488 ratings )

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Developer: Action Now

9.99 USD

Current version: 3.1.3, last update: 5 years ago
First release : 01 Sep 2012
App size: 51.09 Mb

ReadQuick - Speed Reader

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The worlds first and best speed reading app has been fully redesigned and reimagined for your iPhone and iPad. Over the past year many thousands of you have written us asking for some killer new features. So we took our time and built just about every one of them that made sense.

During our first three years in The App Store the reviews have been amazing:

"... I read just fine the traditional way. But a lot of people don’t, and I find it fascinating that many people read better this way. I got a bunch of emails from readers back in January thanking me for linking to ReadQuick, because it works so well for their reading style." - John Gruber, DaringFireball.net

"With ReadQuick, I was able to knock out a fairly lengthy article in just a few minutes without getting distracted." - 9to5Mac

"... when my aging brain needs a kick in the ass, and I just want to ingest as much information and data as possible. When I want to guzzle down water. Thats when ReadQuick is invaluable." - Rene Ritchie (iMore.com)

"I’m particularly impressed by its minimal and intuitive design." - Forbes

"For me personally, RQ is a great way to enforce focus and attention on what Im reading; if I look away, daydream or get distracted, Im going to miss something." - Engadget

One New App, Many New Features

ReadQuick helps you read faster than ever before. Designed for iOS 9, this app helps you speed read while getting through your daily reading lists.

You can access articles you want to read through our partners like Pocket or find them yourself with the built-in browser. You can also choose to read think pieces by our great content partners such as iMore, Longreads, and more. ReadQuick will tell you how long each article will take you to complete based on your words per minute rate.

The more you use ReadQuick the faster your reading rate will become.

Whats New in ReadQuick:

Brand New Layout and Design
- Inuitive new look feel that gets you closer to the reading experience.
- New control gestures for iPhone and iPad
- All new layout for larger screen iOS devices

Extension Support
- Save right to the ReadQuick List using the iOS extension!

Unified Inbox
- All new My Saves inbox that pulls all of your read-it-later services into one place.

Syncing
- Its here! iCloud syncing between your devices.
- Delete an article on your iPad and its gone from your iPhone
- Keeps all your playlists in sync

New Partners
- You wanted Evernote and Feedly integration.
- You got it.

Faster
- Readers wanted to go faster than 800 words per minute so we increased the reading rate to 1,000 words per minute. Holy smokes!

Multiple Words
- ReadQuick has always presented one word at a time, now from the menu you can choose to speed read with multiple words at a time.

Full Article Viewer
- Tap the full article viewer to see where you are in a large article.
- Or maybe you just want to read the traditional way for a few minutes.

Sharing
- Instantly share your favorite articles with the built-in share sheet.

Text Copying
- since importing PDFs is a bag of hurt we found a way to copy the text you want from the clipboard and create an article complete with your own title.

Featured Partners
- All new featured partners like Google News, iMore, and more
- Pulls in the most recent articles from your favorite news websites

Pros and cons of ReadQuick - Speed Reader app for iPhone and iPad

ReadQuick - Speed Reader app good for

this is an alternative way to read. I like it. Im a little confused why the delete button is grayed out on a bunch of articles, both read and unread.

Several months ago, I wrote a negative review, because an update made the app useless to me. However, a delete and re-install solved my problem. Now, I am back to using the app every day to read faster. But now I am asking the developers to please, please, please allow your users to add to the reading list from a computer or other browser. Better yet, create a Mac app store version that syncs with the iOS version.

If you are like me and you see dozens of headlines that you would like to read every day, yet never find the time to read 90% of them, this app is for you. If you realize that reading is wonderful exercise for your mind yet youre too busy to read more than you are currently able to find the time to do so, then this app is for you. Ill be 50 years old this month and I have been noticing more and more that as I find less time to read, I feel as though my reading speed as well as my comprehension has dramatically declined. In my opinion, this app is practically Heaven-sent as I can once again read nearly everything I would like to read.

Love this app! I can now zip through articles large articles that used to intimidate me and retain the information pretty well! However, the app hasnt been updated in a while so there are a few minor bugs that make it feel unpolished on my iPad Pro. Would love to see an update from the developer!

I want to use it to read PDF. Can you add that to future update? Thanks

This app perfectly allows you to read at a faster pace. However it doesnt let you read everything. Id really like to read some of the books I have on this app but it is currently unable to do this.

Some bad moments

The idea is great, really it would be a 5 star rank. However, it only uses websites or clipboards, while it is obvious that the real benefit would come from pdf or epub formats. As it is, no real use. I am checking here few months if anything improved in the area, but no avail. Other before me asked for the same, but looks like the producer is not interested

At the outset this program seemed to have lots of potential. However, it soon became clear that this application had a little use outside of the limited options provided by the developer. If you were hoping to incorporate this app to read things that you desire, you are on your own. The customer service is nonexistent. Despite multiple requests for help and an explanation, I have yet to receive or hear anything from the developer. The promised newsletter is also a fiction. Unless and until the developer is able to expand this apps uses beyond the limited reading offered or to provide a modicum of support, put your money to better use.

Pocket articles are not being loaded inside the app. It was used to be good but now is not. Waiting for a fix

Often the app just "reads" the headline / subtitles and not the whole article. Hope you can fix that.

Restore button doesnt work. Looks like the developer force the customers to purchase this app again.

I think its ok BUT if I could see it or read it in BIGGER PRINT it may be a lot better , so on that note Ill forget for now but thanks any how or way ! Take time & think about it .

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